Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-26
TO &. A, R, POSTS.
Commander Griffin's Appeal fer the
State HOme-Funds Needed for
the Waupaca Institution.
COngratulatIng the State Department
of the Grand Army on its Pro
gresS-New Posts Mus
tered in.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Aug. pa circular
issued from Grand Army Department
| headquarters tonight, acknowledges the
! gift of the patriotic citizens of Waupaca,
! of the site for the Wisconsin Veterans
home, embracing seventy eight acres,
with hotel building and eight cottages,
| situated on the banks of beautiful lake
! three miles and half from Waupace, and
! cOmmends the excellent selection made
! by the iucorporators. Department Com
! mander Griffin says further that notwith-
standing the superior adaptability of the
! property to the uses for which it is de-
| signed it will require an expenditure of
several thousand dollars to put the build
| ing in proper condition and suitably
! furnish them. Funds must also be pro-
v1ded to maintain the comrades who are
admitted to the home, for three months,
as no moneys can be obtained from the
! State un siI the home has been established
| tor that length of time. For these pur
poses about $4,000 will be needed. Con
tributiOns from the posts will be quired
as one means of raising the funds. Posts
which have not contributed are urged TO
do so at once.
The circular states that President
| Campbell, of the Milwaukee exposition,
has generously offered the Grand Army,
free of cost, including heat and light,
space for an exhibition of war relics. All
desiring TO visit this department of the
exposition must pay an admission fee to
be fixed by Mrs. Gertie Rogers, president
of the Womau's Relief Corps of this de-
partment. The proceeds of the exhibi-
bion of war relics, after payment of nee
essary expenses, go the Veterans Home
fund. Mrs. Rogers has signifed her wilt
IngnesS to take charge of the war relics
department. Every member of the order
in the department is asked to gather all
war relics by him obtainable, pack them
properly and ship them by express to
Mrs. Rogers, care OF President Campbell,
each article to be labeled with name and
address of owner and a brief history
thereof. Express charges will be paid
both ways at Milwaukee and the relics re-
turned to their owners at the close of the
exposition. The department command
er earnestly hopes that the old soldiers
will embrace this excellent opportunity
to raise several Thousand dollars for the
Veterans home. All relics should be for
warded as early as Aug. %, or as rapidly
thereafter as possible prior to the open
ing of the exposition, and not later than
is confident that, with proper efforts, the
war relics department will be grand
success.
THE STATE GRAND ARMY.
Commander Griffin's semi-annual order
to the Wisconsin department of the Grand
Army of the Republic congratulates the
comrades upon the substantial progress
made since the twenty-frst department
encampment. The members and all loyal
people have manifested the most crafty
ing evidences of renewed devotion to
those patriotic professions that preserved
the nation and maintained an unyielding
loyalty to its cause and to the old flag.
The observation of Memorial Day had
exec oded in point of general interest any
preceding occasion of that character, and
was, therefore, one of the most pleasing
indications of success for the Grand
Army as well as pledge of the people of
the land that those who offered up their
lives for the preservation of the nation
shall not be forgotten.
The commander adds as special cause
for congratulation, "That the Grand Army
of the Republic of this department per
formed its part in arresting the attempt
made to restore the emblems of treason
in possession of the government to their
former cu5todians and present admirers.
The protest of the Grand Army against
the surrender of the battle standards
captured by their heroic vaior was
born of no motive or spirit other than
that of purest loyalty and devotion to
the union and its highest interests. A
complete Justification for entering our
solemn protest, if there were not score
of others, is found and emphasized
in the single fact, now well known, that
these battle flags were to be made use of
in arousiPg and creating in the youth of
the present day a spirit of veneration for
those who bore them in the front of bat
tie. An organization such as ours,
founded on loyalty crystaIized amid the
carnage of a war in which those trophies
were borne aloft to encourage and cleo
trify those who waged it against the
cause of freedom and humanity, would
not be true to its professions did it fail
to preform its part in suppressing any
act, designed or otherwise, to revive and
perpetuate doctrines and principles
which are menace to the stability and
perpetuity of cur national union"
NEW POSTS MUSTERED IN.
As an evidence of the constant growth
of the department, Commander Griffin
presents list of the posts mustered in
during the past six months, namely at
kenosha, Poysippi, Rhinelander, Mindo-
ra, Bangor, Cataract, Loyal, Prairie Farm
and Trimbelle. He urges that every pos
sible encouragement should be extended
to those noble auxiliary organizations,
the Woman's Relief corps and the Sons
of Veterans, and closes the general order
IN the hope of still greater success than
that of the past half during the six
months yet to elapse before the twenty
second department encampment is held.